9. Where a statement of offence, generated entirely or partly in electronic form, is converted into hard copy on a pre-printed or pre-programmed form, the first hard-copy statement of offence intended for the defendant, the hard-copy statement of offence that the prosecutor may adduce as evidence and the hard-copy statement of offence intended for the judicial authority have the same force as an original.
Where a digitized statement of offence or the digitized particulars it comprises are converted into hard copy, the hard-copy statement of offence that the prosecutor may adduce as evidence and the hard-copy statement of offence intended for the judicial authority stand in lieu of the original.